What is a Film

Distributor?

A Film Distributor…

• Purchases a movie• Decides the most appropriate

audience for the film• Decides the amount of copies to

pay for• Presents the film to buyers

Which film distributor would we use for our thriller?

For my thriller I would choose Momentum Pictures to distribute my film because they have made similar movies to my thriller before and would have the closely related experienceMomentum movies that are stylistically similar to my thriller are…• Woman In Black• Insidious• A Walk Among The Tombstones

Our Distributor Would…

• Make a release date of spring that will avoid competition

• Decide amount and price of copies• Help gain publicity for our thriller• Promote our product

My release pattern would be a blanket release pattern

because we will start off locally as we are independent and then we will gain notoriety

through word of mouth.

Momentum would gain publicity by…

• Addressing the target audience as 16-24 year old males

• Creating excitement through Facebook advertisement

• Add the thriller to their Halloween movie bundle

• Release on DVD and digital • Bring the movie to both USA and Canada,

to widen audience• They would be able to sell off our thriller to

a subscription service such as Netflix